A Ford motor company advertisement in technicolor for the new, quiet engineered 1939 Ford automobile. A panoramic view of a forest. Deer in the forest. A man takes photographs of companions, a man and two women in the forest. Their 1939 Ford car parked in the background. They all get in the car and drive away on a road in the forest.
' Up in flames' about the history of fire fighting forests. Men cut tree in a forest in United States. Forests being burned to clear away the land for farming. A massive forest fire storm is shown. Smoke rises from the remains after the fire. Men clearing the land. Cleared up piece of land.
Scenes of early Forest Ranger activities to fight forest fires. A circa 1910 photo of Fire Warden standing on observation post at top of extremely tall tree. A flag flies at the observation post. A tree House observation post on the top of a tall bare tree. A "wooden skyscraper"lookout tower. A fire warden and his family pose in front of their house at the base of a lookout tower in Arkansas. Lookout house built on a high peak in Willamette National Forest, Oregon. A tall steel tower lookout in the Suwanee forest, Georgia. A Ranger at an early lookout point, equipped only with a map and compass. Fire warden sights through a W.B. Osborne's fire finder and makes a telephone call. Observations from two ranger stations being plotted on a map and the intersecting lines give the exact location of area under fire.
Early developments in North American forest fire detection and communication Various methods of communication used to send information during a forest fire. Smoke rises from forest and a Ranger, carrying a spade, climbs a hill in the area. Circa 1920 picture of a man with a carrier pigeon used to send information in case of forest fire. Rangers with shovels working around smoking underbrush. Another man with a hand mirror for reflecting the suns rays and sending a signal to others. A man speaks over a telephone. Man in a room as he speaks over a wireless handset.
Man drives an offroad vehicle specially designed, with individually suspended wheels, to traverse difficult terrain during a forest fire. A Canadair CL-215 "Super Scooper" twin engine float plane filling its 1400 gallon water tanks as it skims over a lake and then discharging it in a demonstration, in Quebec, Canada. Solar energy powered weather instruments and a tower with view of its instruments and a solar panel with solar cells on it. A satellite in the space. Closeup aerial view of Cessna O-2 Skymaster surveillance aircraft in flight. Technician inside aircraft using infrared detectors to find forest fires. Image of the territory below on monitor screen aboard the airplane. "Smoke Jumpers" parachute from an aircraft. A helicopter hovers over trees in forest and lowers a rope that firefighter uses to rappel into the forest. Firefighters manually fighting a fire with hand tools at the fire's edge. They quickly leave the area, as a flareup occurs and then return to continue fighting the fire.
California forest fires in 1987. Trees burning in a forest. Aerial view of the smoking forest as seen from a helicopter in flight. A pickup truck drives past the burning fire. Firefighters in protective gear shoveling earth to extinguish flames and create a fire break. Numerous dramatic views of fire burning through forest. Background sounds of firefighters conversing on radios.